The Seven Seal Judgments

God will seal twelve thousand of these saved Israelites from each of the twelve tribes. Just as Noah and his family were preserved safely through the flood; these 144,000 Jewish believers will also be protected through the Tribulation hour.

John then sees a second group that is standing before the heavenly throne. They are the great blood-washed multitude of Gentile believers who’ve been martyred for their faith. They have come out of the Great Tribulation and have washed their robes in the blood of the Lamb. Their white robes symbolize righteousness and the palms are significant of the victory they’ve won over the Beast and the false prophet.

They attribute their salvation to God and the Lamb and are a direct result of the ministry of the 144,000 Jewish missionaries who’ve risked their lives to proclaim Christ to all the nations of the world. Their sufferings and trials being over, these believers now serve God forever in continual bliss.

I would like to bring to your attention that there are a great many Bible teachers who strongly believe that only those who have not willfully rejected the Savior in this present age will have an opportunity to be saved during the Tribulation period. Therefore, it’s important that we examine ourselves to see if our faith is truly genuine!

The seventh seal is now opened for all the inhabitants of heaven to see! The seventh seal contains both the seven trumpets as well as the seven vial or bowl judgments. This half hour of silence is the "lull before the storm." The judgments ahead will continue to increase in intensity as the Tribulation nears the end. The seven trumpet judgments will cover the next twenty-one months of the first half of Daniel’s "seventieth week", whereas the vial or bowl judgments take place during the last half of the Tribulation period.